GARRETT, Abraham Ellison, a Representative from Tennessee;
born near Livingston, Overton County, Tenn., March 6, 1830;
attended the public schools and Poplar Springs College, Kentucky;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Livingston, Tenn.;
also engaged in agricultural pursuits;
served as lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry, in the Union Army during the Civil War;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865;
member of the State house of representatives in 1865 and 1866;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872;
resumed the practice of law in Carthage, Tenn., where he died February 14, 1907;
interment in Carthage Cemetery.